A new ocean is slowly forming in East Africa as the African, Arabian, and Somali plates drift apart. This geological shift, ...

Tectonic processes, occurring in the Earth's crust and resulting in supercontinent ... coinciding with the formation of Pangea, killed some 90 percent of the planet's species.

Sinking in one place leads to plates moving apart in other places. The movement of the plates and the activity inside the Earth, is called the theory of plate tectonics.

According to plate tectonics theory, Earth's outer shell is divided into multiple plates that slowly glide over the mantle. This slowly changes Earth's surface over time by merging, or separating ...

Plate tectonics is a perfect example of this. Space view of Earth's magnetic rocks Mapping Earth's slow surface warping Gravity satellite probes deep Earth It tells us why the Himalayas are so ...

The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts that are punctuated with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. 4 min read There are a few handfuls of major plates and dozens of smaller ...

To learn why, where, and how earthquakes happen, you need to familiarize your students with the interior of the Earth and a model called plate tectonics. The engine behind the earthquake machine ...

Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never confirmed that it happens on other worlds - that may be about to change ...